Red China developed interrogation techniques to ensure the criminals China captured confessed to the crimes Red China wanted to convict them of. It now seems that the Bush administration was so impressed by the Red China interrogation techniques, they adopted them as their own.
See
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/us/02detain.html
The Bush administration used the report “Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions From Air Force Prisoners of War” and written by Albert D. Biderman, a sociologist then working for the Air Force, as their manual for getting false confessions from US captive.
Imitation is certainly the most sincere form of flattery.